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Forex trading with TradeRoom

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Contents Introduction 1. Registration with TradeRoom and trading account opening 2. Forexite TradeRoom exterior 3. Crediting and activation of trading account 4. Forexite TradeRoom main facilities

4.1. Making deals 4.1.1. “Trading” page 4.1.2. Forex trading 4.1.3. Conversion deals

4.2. Account state monitoring 4.3. Operations with orders

4.3.1. Orders placement to close positions 4.3.2. “Orders” tab 4.3.3. Open position optionality for order placement 4.3.4. If-Done and ОСО order placement 4.3.5. Setting order rate as increment 4.3.6. Order placement at any distance from market rate 4.3.7. Zero amount orders 4.3.8. Position-independent trailing-stop with position opening possibility

4.4. Charts of changes in currency rates 4.5. Forex news 4.6. Review of trading system reports

4.6.1. “Deals List” report 4.6.2. “Orders List” report 4.6.3. “Account Summary” report 4.6.4. “Account Statement” report 4.6.5. “Profit/Loss” report

4.7. Service functions in TradeRoom 4.7.1. Forexite contact information 4.7.2. Messaging with Forexite personnel 4.7.3. Modeling of Forex account status 4.7.4. Viewing event log on Forex account

4.8. Some system settings 4.8.1. Automatic conversion 4.8.2. Customizing Forex trades and conversion deals 4.8.3. Changing system parameters

4.9. Viewing trading conditions and other reference information 5. Withdrawals from trading account 6. Terminating the TradeRoom session 7. Other TradeRoom features, distinctions and advantages

Forex trading with Forexite TradeRoom

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Introduction Using the Forexite TradeRoom platform you can easily trade in the Forex market via the Internet. The system provides with a real-time trade execution, a trading account management, and the information about the account balance. You have to neither download nor install any special software for TradeRoom to run. An Internet connection and an Internet browser installed on your PC would be enough. TradeRoom does not depend on the operating system installed in your PC. It is compatible with all basic Internet browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Google Chrome, etc. TradeRoom-to-your-PC data exchange takes place in the SSL protocol encrypted form only. This secures a strict discretion and safety of your activities. A number of advantages makes trading through the Forexite TradeRoom different from the other trading systems:

1) A possibility to trade with a low risk – a safety Forex trading. 2) No slippage at the order execution (in normal market conditions).The trading

terms on both real and virtual accounts completely coincide. 3) A public quotation. 4) Confidentiality. 5) No restrictions on the minimum deposit. 6) A daily accrual of interest. 7) Any amount of deals. 8) Virtual trading without restrictions.

There is also TradeRoomMini – a mobile terminal for smartphones and communicators. You can find the description of TradeRoomMini as well as the handling procedure in our article “Tour to Forexite TradeRoom Mini” on our web-site.

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1. Registration with TradeRoom and trading account opening TradeRoom allows for two types of the trading accounts to trade in Forex:

a virtual (demo) account;

a real trading account. There are no account restrictions: opening and maintenance of any account are free regardless of their quantity. The period of the account use is not limited. Account opening in TradeRoom does not bind you as for the depositing time and volume. You decide on all this freely on your own. A virtual (demo) account is used for a detailed study of the trading system and the trading process, profit-making simulation at a currency rates movement, trading strategies verification, training the online-trading skills. The virtual (demo) account is not trade-limited, neither it is limited in the funds on the account, nor in the currencies in use. There is no real money on the account. To trade on-line with the real money a real trading account is used. Trading on virtual accounts has two basic differences from that on real ones:

1) It is traded with the real money on the real account, whereas the virtual account uses the virtual, unreal money.

2) Trading on the virtual account is possible at your convenience, even when trading is closed. However, you should take into consideration that quotes are not updated during this period.

As for the rest, the virtual account does not differ from the real one: the trading conditions as well as facilities are the same for both accounts; the quotes delivered to the accounts of both types are from the same trading quotes server. So, you’d rather study the TradeRoom basic features on the virtual account. To register a new virtual (demo) account it is necessary to click on “Virtual (demo) account” on the TradeRoom logon page.



Note. If you click on “Real trading account” (see picture above) you will be redirected to open a real trading account. Opening a trading account is a standard sequence of steps for entering contact data, so if you know already how an account with TradeRoom is opened, you can go directly to getting acquainted with the system. Let’s take a look at the virtual account registration. It consists of following steps.

1) At first a brief form of the account owner is filled in. The required fields are of the red color. They are the last name, the first name, country of residence and e-mail.

2) Choose the username (login) and the password which you will use to log in to TradeRoom. The password should be of six characters at least – that is the only condition. The password can be changed, but the username never. Also you should study the Virtual Trading Terms and Conditions. Please take a close look at it and then accept the conditions.



3) The last step is made by TradeRoom. It generates a message confirming the registration of a new account.

Notes. 1) Please keep in mind that TradeRoom automatically terminates the virtual accounts not logged in within a month. To re-open the terminated account just log in to the TradeRoom system. The account will be activated automatically, however, the operation history till the account termination will be lost, and the settings will be reset. 2) The difference between the real account opening and that of the virtual one described above is that more fields in the registration form are subject to compulsory filling in. Should you forget your username or your password to access your virtual account, you can easily recover them since TradeRoom has the reminder procedure. The forgotten password to the virtual account can be easily recovered since no real money is involved on it, so you have nothing to lose.



You just click on the “Remind username or password” hyperlink on the TradeRoom logon page. Then you will be redirected to the page with two field groups. The first group (see the pic. below) is meant for cases when you need to recover the password only. The second one serves to recover both, the password and the username.

Fill in the fields depending on what data you need to recover. If the information you have entered coincides with that specified at the Forex account registration, the required data will be automatically sent to the e-mail address specified at the registration. Note. As for real accounts, we approach to the password recovery more strictly. For the sake of the possible abuse, the automatic password reminder is not available for the real accounts. To recover a lost password, you should contact Forexite’s personnel via the TradeRoom contact form with the details of your account, and be ready to answer some additional questions and, if needed, to provide the Forexite company with the documents necessary to confirm your disposal of the real account.

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2. Forexite TradeRoom exterior After the account registration is complete , you can log in to TradeRoom either by going to the Forexite TradeRoom login page. Or you can click on TradeRoom link right now.

In case of the correct username and password you will be logged in to the system. You will be automatically forwarded to the “Trading” page, with the “Open Positions” tab being active.

The TradeRoom window can be nominally divided into three areas.

1) The main menu is used to operate the system; it contains controls to execute trades, convert finances, view reports, modify settings, etc.

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The main menu controls are functionally grouped into the sections which are shown in bold. If a section is wrapped, the operations it consists of are not displayed. To expand the section, click on its heading.

2) The work space contains the information and the controls necessary for execution of trades, placement of payments, receipt of reports, editing of settings, etc. The work space view and contents depend on the operation selected in the main menu.

3) The auxiliary menu at the top of the window allows opening the on-line help, viewing the Forex news and event calendar, opening the contact form to send a message to the support service.

In case you want another page to open automatically after you log in to TradeRoom, you can change the startup page in the system settings.

The system interface can be displayed either in Russian or in English. At the TradeRoom logon the language is selected automatically, since the system uses the preferred language specified in your browser. So, if Russian is set in your preference list as first, TradeRoom will be displayed in Russian; in case of the English language as the first one, then it will be in English. If none of them is listed in the preferences, the system will use English.


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3. Crediting and activation of trading account So now you have the virtual account registered. While there is no money on the virtual account, it is inactive. You cannot work with it. To activate the account, you should credit it with money. Let’s see, how you can credit your account with a virtual deposit (we would remind you that you do not need a real money to do this). Click on “Account Funding” in the “Payments” section of the TradeRoom main menu.

Then select the currency and amount you want to credit your account with. It will be enough to credit your virtual account; no other extra information is required. The system will not take into consideration the data you enter in the other fields. As soon as you press “Submit”, your account will be credited with the specified amount, which you will be notified of by the system.

Now, when you click on the “State of Account” tab on the “Trading” page, you’ll see the account current assets increased by the incoming payment.


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Notes. 1) When you trade on a real account, the “Account Funding” page is used not to credit the account with funds, but to inform the Forexite Company on the payment you have made. 2) You should understand that you have to transfer the real money to you real account to trade on it. You can do this in one of following ways: by a credit card (Visa, MasterCard, etc.), with a RBK Money order, a Russian Post postal order, a WebMoney order, a WebMoney card redemption, a wire transfer, and others. So you need to know the banking details of the Forexite to transfer the money to your account. All the details you would need to make a payment by this or that method are stated at the bottom part of the “Account Funding” page. 3) The payment method you select determines the currencies your payment can be received in.. As soon as there is a virtual amount on your virtual account you can start studying the Forexite TradeRoom trading system.


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4. Forexite TradeRoom main facilities We recommend you to carry out the operations on the virtual account in those currencies and those amounts you are planning your operations in for the real account. E.g., if you have a EUR account with bank and are going to place deposits to your real TradeRoom trading account from it, then try first to carry out the operation virtually. Try to place a payment order at the virtual account to transfer the funds. You’ll see the amount of the fee. Try also to carry out some currency conversion operations to see how it is as well as the spread. All operations at the real account will be fulfilled just the same.

4.1. Making deals There are two ways of making deals in TradeRoom:

1) by a quote request with a further buying or selling of a currency; 2) by placement of Stop or Limit orders.

Here TradeRoom distinguishes two types of deals: Forex deals and Conversion. The deals of both types are executed in the same way, both on the “Trading” page.

4.1.1. “Trading” page Page “Trading” contains detailed information about the account state: open positions, current balances, account status. You can not only view the information but also manage the account: open, change and close positions, convert balances, control orders. There is also extra information –quotes charts and Forex news for decision-making while trading. Let’s consider the “Trading” page in more details.

The page has 6 tabs.

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1) The “Open Positions” tab allows you to monitor the existing open positions for Forex trades, the average rate of their opening, and the profit for each position.

2) The “Currency Balances” tab provides the information on the balances in all currencies available in the account. It also shows the current value of the asset.

3) The “State of Account” shows the main parameters of your account. 4) The “Orders“ tab allows orders controlling: create, edit, and cancell them. 5) The “Charts” tab allows you to see a chart of changes in the market rate for

the selected tool. 6) The “News” tab provides Forex news issued by Forexite, FxWire Pro and the

news by Agency of economic information "PRIME" and Dow Jones & Company Inc.

There is a “Refresh” button next to the tabs. It is used to manually update the data if you have disabled the automatic updating in the TradeRoom settings to save the traffic. The automatic update is enabled by default (after the account registration). For more details see “Changing system parameters”.

4.1.2. Forex trading Forex trading is a margin trading on the Forex market in the amount from 1 to 5 000 000 USD (the amounts can be changed according to the Trading conditions). The peculiarity of the Forex trades is that when you make a deal, you open a position. The position is open until you close it by making a reverse trade. E.g., for closing the position which was opened by selling it is necessary to make a buying deal. The position can also be automatically closed by the trading system. This happens if your free funds are insufficient to support your open positions. The system automatically transfers your open positions on Forex deals the next value date with rollovers at the end of the day. For the detailed information see the article on our web-site “Roll-over of open position” (in Russian). Let's see how the Forex deals are made on the “Trading” page. To make a deal, open the tab “Open Positions”. To open a new position, click the left mouse button on the line with the instrument you are interested in. A context menu will appear in which you have to select the “Trade” item. Then the trade execution controls will appear at the bottom of the page.

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Notes. 1) The exchange rates both on the “Trading” page and in the trade execution form are updated automatically. When the rate goes down, a red indicator “▼” appears near to the quote, while when it goes up, there is a blue one “▲”. The rate value is displayed in the same appropriate color. 2) If the instrument you need is not listed in the “Open positions” tab, make sure you have the “On selected instruments” display mode selected, and the right instrument is enabledin the trading settings. Let’s consider the trade execution form in details.

It contains the items as follows:

1) Field with a currency pair the quote is displayed for. 2) Field to enter the trade amount (by default it contains the value you have

entered before). You can change the sum at any time, either manually by entering a new amount, or with the help of the standard amounts list which appears when you click on the row. Pay your attention that the system automatically places one of the standard amounts (it is 10 000 EUR in figure above) in the form. So, if you want to open a position with another amount,

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just correct it. You can adjust the standard amounts list in the trading preferences as you wish. E.g.:

3) Field with the trading currency you have selected. If you want to change the currency, click on “▼”. Then a menu, in which you can select another currency, will appear.

4) Selling rate and the “Sell” button. 5) Buying rate and the “Buy” button. 6) Point price for the trade (see figure on page 14).

After you set the amount of the deal the only thing for you to do is to click on “Buy” or “Sell”. In this case if the “Confirm trade” option is enabled in the trading preferences, TradeRoom will request a confirmation, whether you really want to execute the trade. The Forex trade will be executed only after your affirmative answer.

If you do not want the confirmation to be requested in the future, then mark the “Do not display this prompt” option. After the Forex trade is placed, you will see the information about the open position in the table.

The data in the “Open Positions” tab can be displayed in three modes:

1) The mode “On selected instruments” (enabled by default) is used to display all the instruments available to be traded with according to your trading

If the option is on, the system requires the trade execution to be confirmed.



preferences. The mode allows you to see the changes in the rates even for the instruments you do not have the open positions for.

2) The mode “Only non-zero positions” is used to display only the instruments the positions are open for.

3) The mode “On all instruments” shows all instruments you can open a position for.

To switch between the modes in the tab use the “▼” marker.

There is one more essential feature of the TradeRoom system which distinguishes it from the similar trading platforms. TradeRoom sums up all positions for the same currency into one single position. It means that any new trade for a given instrument changes the amount of the existing position (up to its close). Here is the simple way how to perform it. Let you open a EUR/USD position by buying 200 000 EUR. Suppose you want to open one more position by selling 100 000 EUR. After executing the second trade the system automatically consolidates the new position with that already open for EUR/USD. The system will inform you about it with the following message “The open position in EUR/USD has changed from -200 000.00 to -300 000.00 EUR”. In this case TradeRoom will also modify the average rate of the open position: it will be re-calculated with regard to the volume of the sum added and the current rate.



If you want to open an opposite position by buying 77 000 EUR, after the trade “Buy 77.000 EUR” is executed, your position will be reduced by 77.000 Euros. The system displays the message: “The open position in EUR/USD has changed from -200 000.00 to -123 000.00 EUR”. Note that with the decreased size of the position its average rate is not changed. The “Open Positions” tab offers a way to quickly close out a position on any trade. To do this, just click on the “Х” icon at the end of the line next to each open position. A quote, which the selected position can be closed at, will appear. The position will be closed only after you click either “Sell” or “Buy” (one of the buttons will be disabled depending on the direction of the open position). E.g., if the position is open by buying 200 000 GBP, you should execute a trade to sell 200 000 GBP in order to close it (as it shown in figure below).



Note. There is one more way to close an open position. Left-click on the line with the position you want to close. A context menu will appear, in which select the “Close” item. Then you will get the quote to close the position.

4.1.3. Conversion deals Conversion deals are the operations of exchange of one currency for another. The amount of a trade can be from 1 to 100 000 USD (the amounts can be changed according to the Trading conditions). The peculiarities are:

spread for conversion deals is bigger than for those of Forex;

for conversion deals, the currency interest rates difference is charged with a daily account balance interest;

a conversion deal does not open a position, that’s why, unlike a Forex trade, you do not have to make a reverse trade for conversion.

To execute the conversion deals use the “Currency Balances” tab on the “Trading” page which contains the data about all currency balances on your account. The balances can be caused by various factors, such as the presence of open positions, execution of conversion deals, profit or loss resulted from the position close, the account depositing, or the funds withdrawal. If there are no open positions on the account and the incoming funds have been in USD only, you will see only one row, corresponding to USD, in the table of the balances. To convert USD into another currency, left-click on the row and select "Convert to” in the menu appeared. A submenu with a list of the currencies available will appear (the list is rather large, so the figure below displays only the initial part of it). After you select a currency, you will see the trade execution form already familiar to you.

The position was opened by GBP buy, so you should sell GBP to close it.

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Enter the amount you want to convert and press a “Sell” or a “Buy” button. As a result, a new row corresponding to the converted currency, will appear in the table of the balances (in this case it is CZK, see figure below).

You can use the “Х” marker in the right part of the row to convert a currency into USD. After you click on the marker, the system will provide you with the quote, so the only thing for you to do will be to press the button to execute the deal. Note that if there is an open position for some instrument on the account, a full conversion of the balance of the appropriate currency will not be available. In this case the color of the marker next to the balance will be greyed out.



For a partial conversion, use the "Convert to” command from the context menu, as described above. Notes. 1) Like the Forex trades, in case you have the “Confirm trade” option enabled in the trading preferences, the system will request a confirmation, whether you really want to make the conversion. The conversion deal will be executed only after your affirmative answer to the request. 2) By default, the TradeRoom system configured to automatically convert all the balances into USD. So, if you do not want the currency you have bought, to be automatically converted back into USD at the end of the trading day, you have to disable the conversion of the given currency in the TradeRoom preferences. For more details about the automatic conversion read in the “Some system settings” section.

4.2. Account state monitoring The “State of Account” tab displays the main figures of your account.

Let us briefly explain some of the figures stated here (you can find a more detailed description of all figures in the Forexite TradeRoom Online help).

“Current Equity” shows the sum of the current balances of all currencies converted into USD.

“Free Equity” is the part of the assets not involved into support of the open positions.

“Current Leverage” shows the ratio of the total open position to the current assets.

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“Maximum Leverage” shows the limit value of the current leverage. If the current leverage becomes equal to or exceeds the maximum one, the system will close all open positions and convert the balances into USD.

“Current Total Open Position” is a cumulative open position for all instruments expressed in USD.

“Available Open Position” is the difference between the maximum allowed open position and the current total one. The positive value shows the size of the position you can open additionally. The negative one means the excess of the current total open position over the maximum one. In this case you are recommended to reduce the position, but you are not obliged to do it.

When working with the tab you should be aware that it displays the amounts with two decimal places precision. It’s been made not to fuss up the tab. However, the calculations are made to a much higher precision. The system preferences (item “TradeRoom” in group “Preferences”) have an option which makes it possible to further simplify the display of the amount.

So, when the “Hide zero fraction for round amounts” option is enabled, all amounts will be shown with no fraction. It is convenient in some cases.

4.3. Operations with orders There are the tools to place, edit and cancel the orders as well as to trace their status and changes in them, in TradeRoom. The orders can be placed at any distance from the current market rate, even up to one point. You can place the orders for any amount: the same rules as for trading amounts are applied here. Besides, you can place orders with a zero amount (more detailed information on this unique possibility will be provided hereafter). You can place OCO orders (linked orders) as well as If-Done orders (they are activated after the parent order has been executed). You can also specify the type of the trade you need, a Forex one or that of conversion, in the order. It is possible to enable trailing in any Stop order. There is an opportunity to limit the order validity as well. You can execute Forex trades and conversion deals with the orders in TradeRoom.

4.3.1. Order placement to close positions After each Forex trade is executed, the TradeRoom offers to place orders for the automatic close of the open position, in case you have the “Offer order operations” option enabled in the trading preferences. E.g., if you opened a position by selling 200 000 EUR, the system offers placement of two linked (OCO) orders, Stop and Limit, for the open position.



The rate values proposed for the orders by the system are calculated according to the settings specified on the “Order Preferences” page.

The distance in the points from the reference rate, in this case it is the Forex trade rate, to the appropriate rate is set in the “Order Preferences”. The order rate value is computed by adding the set number of points to the trade rate. The system proposes a placement of two linked (OCO) orders, Stop and Limit, for the open position. The orders are linked with each other, which means the automatic cancellation of one order when the other is executed. A Stop-order is used for the limitation of a possible loss when the market rate moves in an undesirable direction, whereas a Limit-order is for the fixation of profit when the direction is desirable. The Stop-order can be placed with Trailing enabled, for that option you should mark the column “Trailing” as it is shown on the previous picture. The trailing means that in case the market rate moves away from the order, the order rate automatically shifts following the market one. If the market rate moves towards the order, the order rate is not changed.



When the “Trailing” option is enabled, the distance of trailing is calculated as the distance between the specified Stop-order rate and the current rate at the moment of the order operation, and the trailing step is set to minimum. It is possible to change these values at the order editing. If you want to place only one of the proposed orders (either Stop or Limit) you should unmark the order you do not need in the column that follows “Notes”. For instance, in this case the Limit-order will not be placed:

Forex trade orders are placed after you press the “Place” button.

4.3.2. “Orders” tab It is possible to edit, cancel or add new orders on the “Orders” tab.

Note. This tab displays the active orders only. If you want to see the executed or cancelled orders, go to the “Orders list” report which is located in the “Reports”. We will get acquainted with the reports later. To change the order rate you should click on its value in the “Rate” column. A small edit box, where you can set a new order rate, will appear.



In case you need to change the order more essentially, you should click on its line. Then the order edit box will be displayed.

In the editing window you can edit the instrument, operation, amount, currency, rate, order type and type of deal (trade); add an OCO order as well as If-Done orders; activate trailing and set its parameters; limit the order validity; write your own comment to the order. If you modify the order many times, then you might want to look at the history of its changes. You can do it in the “Change log” tab. The changes will be applied after you press the “Save” button. To place a new order it is necessary to click on the “New order” button on “Orders” tab. The window (very much like that for editing) for the placement of a new order will appear. You should set the necessary parameters.



The point of this article is not to tell about all parameters of the orders and the way of their placement, the detailed information on this is to be found in the help to the Forexite TradeRoom trading system. There is a number of unique and very useful features in TradeRoom to work with the orders. They are:

open position optionality for order placement;

possibility to place If-Done and OCO-orders;

possibility to set the order rate as an increment;

possibility to place the orders at any distance from the market rate;

possibility to place zero orders;

position-independent trailing-stop with a possibility of a position opening. Let us take a detailed look at the peculiarities.

4.3.3. Open position optionality for order placement In TradeRoom the orders being placed do not depend on the presence of the open positions. That is the important feature of TradeRoom and, as a result, you can use orders to open a new position. The majority of similar trade platforms don’t let you place a new order if there is no open position for the instrument. It means that at first you have to open a new position and only after that you will be able to place the orders.

4.3.4. If-Done and OCO order placement If-Done orders are the orders which become active after the parent order is executed.



The example of the placement of an order, which opens the position for the EUR/USD instrument and is being linked with two linked if-Done orders, is shown on the picture below. After the parent order (the parameters of which are set at the top of the form) is executed, the two OCO orders (the parameters of which are set at the bottom part of the form) functioning in this case as Stop and Limit, will become active. If one of the two OCO-orders is executed, the other one will be automatically cancelled. The TradeRoom allows to link two active orders and, on the contrary, to unlink already linked orders. E.g., let us have two OCO orders:

To unlink these orders, it is necessary to select them first – put a mark near them (in the last column after “Notes”). Then click on any of the orders. A menu window will appear where you should select “Unlink OCO”. As a result, the OCO group literal mark will disappear from the “ОСО” column of the selected orders. It means that the orders are unlinked from each other.

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4.3.5. Setting order rate as increment The TradeRoom system allows setting the rate as an increment to the reference rate instead of the exact execution rate for any order.

The figure above shows the rates of the Stop and the Limit orders set as increments, whereas the rate of the parent one is specified explicitly. The increment is put as a formula starting with “=”. The “+” and “–” signs specify the direction of the increment. E.g., the “=+100” entry means, the order rate at the activation moment will be 100 points more than the reference rate, whereas the “=-50” means the order rate will be 50 points less than that of reference. You can set the rate as an increment for any order, active or pending. If the order is active the current rate is taken as a reference rate at the order activation. For the pending order (If-Done), the current rate is taken as the reference rate when the order is activated (it is usually the parent order execution rate). It is always recommended to set the order rate as increments for the If-Done orders. In this case, the position of these orders relative to the parent order will be permanent and will not depend on the market changes.

Reference rate of the parent order.

Rates of the Stop and Limit orders set as increments.

Orders are not linked.



The possibility of setting the order rate as increment not only releases you from the necessity of counting the exact execution rate of the orders but also allows for the automatic correction of the linked orders when there are changes in the rate of the parent order.

4.3.6. Order placement at any distance from market rate One more fundamental difference of the TradeRoom from the similar trade platforms is that in the TradeRoom you can place the order rate not just close to the market (to the current rate) but even at one point distance. Note. In the most competing trade platforms it is not allowed to activate the orders with the rate which differs from the current rate less than 5-10 points, and the limitation “not closer than 15-20 points” is a common thing. This feature of TradeRoom allows you to make successful deals in the conditions of a fast market rate change when it is hard to make a deal manually, while you press the “Buy” or “Sell” button, since the quote changes rapidly for a short period of time. In this case for opening/closing the position it is suitable to use the orders rate as increments. Let us have a look how it is done. E.g., you need to open a position for buying 200 00 EUR when the market rate is increasing rapidly. Then, to make the deal you need:

1) to create an order with the rate specified as “=+1”; 2) to check the “OCO Order” option in the “Linked orders”, the rate “=-1” will

be entered into the “OCO order rate” automatically.

After you press the “Save” button, two OCO orders will be placed. The first order will be with the rate 1 point up from the market rate, and the second one 1 point down. If the EUR/USD market rate changes, one of the linked orders will be executed and another will be cancelled.



Neither fast changes in quotes, nor a low internet connection influence this method which always allows you to open/close the position.

4.3.7. Zero amount orders Zero amount orders allow tracing the rate movements and are used for:

1) control of the other orders (for an ОСО order cancellation or an If-Done order activation);

2) receipt of messages about certain events in the Forex market.

On the picture above it is shown how to place a zero-amount order for the EUR/USD instrument. The purpose of the order is to catch the point when the EUR buying rate becomes equal to 1.6 USD. As soon as the order is executed, the system automatically sends the message to your email address. Note. Mobile network operators can provide you with receiving SMS from E-mail service (E-mail2SMS). Therefore, it is possible to set the receiving of the orders execution notifications to your mobile phone. You do not have to constantly sit at the computer and follow the quote changes. Event notifications receiving can be changed on the “Notifications” page of the system preferences.



4.3.8. Position-independent trailing-stop with position opening possibility

Trailing order (also called “a tracking order”) is a Stop order the rate of which automatically changes so that the difference between the order rate and the market one does not exceed the specified value called “a trailing distance”. After setting the trailing order the system acts as follows: in case the market rate moves away from the order, the order rate automatically shifts following the market one. If the market rate moves towards the order, the order rate is not changed. The TradeRoom system employs a discrete trailing – the order rate is changed only after the market rate changes by a certain value called “a trailing step”. The distance and step of the trailing are set in the order editing form in the “Trailing” tab.



Peculiarities:

1) the trailing order can be used not only to close a position, but also to open a new position;

2) since the orders allow for zero amounts, the trailing orders can be used for reporting of the changes in the Forex market.

Thus, a skilful work with the orders can simplify your life, allow you to automate a number of trading operations without a permanently staying by the computer.

4.4. Charts of the currency rate changes You can view the chart of the currency rate changes for the selected instrument. If you point your mouse onto a bar, a tooltip with detailed information about the bar will appear: its time, the rate at the mouse position, and the Open, High, Low, Close rates. If you have an open position for an instrument, it is displayed as a green line on the chart. The line starts opposite the date when the position has been opened or modified. There is a notch at the beginning of the line, which denotes the position direction: upwards if the amount is positive (a long position, buy), and downwards if the amount is negative (a short position, sell).



If there are orders set for the instrument, they will also be shown on the chart. Stop-orders are indicated with a red line, while Limit-orders with a blue one. When you mouse over an order which has linked If Done orders, they will also be highlighted.

You can manage your orders right on the chart: create, edit and cancel. For example, if you want to change the order rate, just place your mouse on the order line and move it to a new place holding the left mouse button. If you need to change the other parameters of the order (e.g., instrument, operation, amount) or edit the linked orders, etc., use the editing form which is called from the context menu. You can also cancel the order selected or place a new order with a selected rate from the context menu. The “Charts” tab has tools for execution of trades too.

Hint with detailed information on bar.

Current rate (brown tick and brown dotted line).

Open position average rate (green tick and firm line).

Beginning of the line denotes the direction of the position opening (buy or sell).

Parent Stop-order.

If Done ордер.

If Done order.



You can make a new deal in two ways:

1) Press button “Trade” below the chart. 2) Or, click in a blank space of the chart and call out the context menu in which

select the “Trade“ item. Then the quotes will be displayed on the monitor which you will be able to make a deal at. You can use the following controls to change the display of the data:

1) “Instrument” – select the currency pair the chart of which you want to be displayed.

2) “Period” – select the period of time which one bar corresponds to. The periods available are: 1, 5, 10, 15, 30, 60, 120, 240, 480 minutes, a day, a week, a month. The period selection allows for adjustment of the chart details: the smaller the period, the more detailed the chart is.

3) “Type” – you can choose the chart shape: a candle, bars (OHLC, HLC, HL), or a line.

4) “Rate” allows for selection of the rates Bid or Ask to be displayed on the chart. It can be of use, e.g., when you want to control the order execution. If the order is to be executed at the Ask rate, then it is more convenient to see the Ask rate.

5) – activates the crosshair mouse mode. This mode allows viewing the rate information in any point of the chart.

6) – activates the scrolling mouse mode. You can scroll the chart to select the visible area in this mode.

7) – enables or disables the automatic scaling of the chart.

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8) – displays the chart preferences window. You can select what elements will be displayed on the chart.

9) – displays the chart help page.

You can read more about the manipulation with the “Charts” tab in the TradeRoom system online help.

4.5. Forex news The tab “News” allows you to view the current Forex news issued by Forexite, as well as the news of the “PRIME” Business News Agency, the Dow Jones & Company Inc. and FxWire Pro company. By default, the top of the list is the latest news. The list contains as much news as fit the page. If you are interested in older news, just click on “Show older news”, which is under the list of news. To view the full text of the news, just click on the news row for a window with the full text to appear.



Note. The full text of the news from the “PRIME” agency and FxWire Pro company is available for the active (with a positive balance) real accounts. As for virtual and inactive real accounts, the news headlines are available only, with a delay of 30 minutes. You can disable the display of the news you are not interested in. To disable it, go to the news filter and unmark the themes the news on which should not be shown.



4.6. Review of trading system reports The reports allow obtaining information on the trading account state within any period of time from the very beginning. TradeRoom disposes the next reports:

1) “Deals List”; 2) “Orders List”; 3) “Account Summary”; 4) “Account Statement”; 5) “Profit/Loss”.

There is a filter in every report which allows for selecting the information by date, currency or instrument, deal type, or document status. The dates for a report can be set either manually or can be chosen from the calendar. We do not recommend setting too wide a range of dates, as the report download can be lengthy in this case. Let’s have a detailed look at the reports.

4.6.1. “Deals List” report The report “Deals List” is meant to trace the trades on your trading account. You should specify the period, the instrument and the trade type in the filter.



You will receive a brief report which shows only the most important data on the deals. For more detailed information click on the deal line:



4.6.2. “Orders List” report The report “Orders List” allows for tracing the orders. By default, the report includes all the orders which have been modified (edited, executed, cancelled, or activated) within the selected period of time.

The report – as is the case with the “Deals List” report – states only the most important data on the orders. The more detailed information can be called by clicking on the order.

4.6.3. “Account Summary” report The “Account Summary” report provides you with the most important data about your account: the account state, open positions on Forex trades, active orders, and currencies balances. All amounts are rounded to whole numbers for easy read.

If you need to quickly get more detailed information, you can do this as follows. Note the table headings in the report are active links. So, if you click on the title, the corresponding page of TradeRoom will open. For example, if you need more



information about the open positions, just click on the heading “Open positions on Forex trades” to get to the "Open Positions" tab on the page “Trading”.

4.6.4. “Account Statement” report The report “Account Statement” allows for control the cash flow on your account and the balance after each operation. The report can include one or more tables depending on the data grouping and currency selected in the filter. Each table shows all entries on the selected currency in a chronological order. For example:

4.6.5. “Profit/Loss” report The report shows the profit or loss resulted from trading, for the period selected for one or all the instruments at a time. For example:

While viewing the report, you should take into consideration that:

1) The profit (or loss) gained in different currencies, are automatically converted by the system into USD at the current rates. That’s why the reported profit (or loss) change as the market rate changes.

2) In computing the profit (or loss) all deals are taken into account, except the account funding and funds transfer transactions.

4.7. Service functions in TradeRoom



To guarantee you a comfortable work, the trading system provides some service functions such as:

contacts;

messaging;

modeling;

event log.

4.7.1. Forexite contact information This page contains the Forexite contact information and the list and the contact information of its international representatives. If you prefer a phone conversation you can find the contacts of the company representatives in your region on the “Contacts” page and contact them.

4.7.2. Messaging with Forexite personnel The “Messaging” page is used for communication with the Forexite staff. Since TradeRoom works with the SSL protected protocol, all messages received and sent by you are encrypted while transferring and are inaccessible for third persons. In this way, messaging via the TradeRoom system is more secure than emails. To write a new message, click on the “New message” button or on the “Send a message” link in the top menu. The contact form will appear:

You should select the recipient, specify the subject, enter a text and click on the “Send” button. Depending on your question, you can send your message right to the department responsible for the issues the question is related to.

“Secretary” is addressed with the common questions as well as in cases when you do not know who to contact.



“Dealing Department” handles the matters related to the execution ad verification of the deals.

“Analytical Department” is responsible for the issues concerning the Forexite’s service of analysis.

“Back-Office” is contacted with the questions dealt with the funds transfers from and to the real accounts.

“Client Department” is referred to with the questions on the Forexite services, trading conditions, registration of real accounts, software use, virtual trading.

“Automation Department” is responsible for technical issues, receives messages on errors in the trading system or the web-site, requests of the technical improvement.

If needed, a short file can be attached to the message.

4.7.3. Modeling of Forex account status The “Modeling” page is designed for forecasting of the account status at changes of the currency rates. It allows to evaluate a potential volume of free funds, facilitates planning the assets diversification to secure the investments. The page contains the “Modeling control” form where you can select the instrument and set a test rate for it. The system carries out calculations using the set test rate and shows the results in the “Open positions (Forex deals)” and the “State of Account” tables. Let us open two positions, one for the EUR/USD instrument and the other for the USD/CHF. You are supposed to model the position for EUR/USD if the rate is 1.4 and see the affect on your account. You should select the EUR/USD instrument, specify 1.4 in the “Model rate” and click the “Calculate” button. The system carries out calculations using the set test rate and shows the results in the “State of Account” table.



If you begin modeling for another instrument, the test rates set for the other instruments are saved and are used for the calculations. The system remembers the test rates even after you log out of TradeRoom. It makes possible to work with the same model for the longest time, correcting it if necessary. When you click the “Reset” button the system deletes the test rates you specified and starts using the current rates in the model. Use this function in case you want to start modeling the account from the very beginning.

4.7.4. Viewing event log for Forex account This service function is meant for tracing different events taking place in your account. The log provides with the full information on a variety of events such as registration in TradeRoom, Logon, Logoff, charging interest on your balance, accomplishing rollovers, automatic balance conversion, and other events. To select the log you need, specify a range of dates and the event type.

Events in the logs are arranged in a chronological order. E.g., that is how the “Logon” looks like:



There is one more interesting detail in TradeRoom worthy of mentioning. The detail is the account free funds interest charging. I.e. you can have an extra income on the money which is deposited on your account and is not used for trading. The accrued interest statement can be sorted out through the “Interest” item of the “Event type” dropdown list.

Click on the deal number for the detailed information, when and for what amount the interest was accrued.

4.8. Some system settings The functions are meant for controlling the TradeRoom preferences arranged in this section of the main menu. It is possible to change some registration data, passwords for accessing TradeRoom via the Internet and phone, subscribe to Forexite’s news and analytic delivery, to adjust notifications of your account events by e-mail, change the trading and order placement preferences. We’ve become acquainted with some of the preferences earlier, and the rest of them will be introduced now.

4.8.1. Automatic conversion While trading the different instruments, you get the profit (or loss) in different currencies. To simplify the profit/loss tracing, all balances are converted by default into USD. The operation is performed with a conversion spread. If you want the balances to be converted into some other currency, you’ll have to change the settings on the “Autoconversion” page.



If you do not need to convert the balances for some of the currencies, you can disable the automatic conversion of the currencies you select. However, in this case a lot of different currencies will be accumulated on your account. The automatic conversion is usually disabled for the currencies used for the funds transfers to and from the account. Thus, you save on conversion.

4.8.2. Setting preferences for Forex trading and conversion You can see the page of the Forex and conversion preferences page on the picture below.

These currencies will not be converted into USD.



In the “Use instruments” group you can disable the instruments you do not use for trading. The disabled instruments will not be thus displayed in the instrument list. You will use only the marked instruments. For the conversion deals all the instruments are accessible. In the “Standard amounts” (see the above figure) field it is possible to create your own list of the amounts which will be used for the quote requests for the Forex and conversion trading. You can edit the list as you wish: modify it in any way, delete or add any amounts including even non-round amounts and fractions. E.g., the figure above shows the list of the standard amounts for Forex trades already changed by the user. The option “Display with enhanced precision” enables the display with the enhanced precision. It covers the open position average rate, points difference between the open position average rate and the current rate, current profit or loss. It is convenient to use if you trade with small amounts. In this case the enabled function allows you to see the precise value of profits/loss. For example:

Standard amounts for Forex trades.

Standard amounts for conversion deals.



The option “Allow for Rollovers in average rate” controls the method of calculation of the open position average rate. When enabled, the rate in the “Average rate” column includes all rollovers. Here is the explanation of the usage of this option. Let you open a position for GBP/USD instrument by buying 200 000 GBP. At the same time the GBP rate starts increasing, therefore, you sustain losses but do not close the position expecting the change of the rate to minimize your losses. At last the rate begins decreasing, and you are going to close the position. However, before the closing you should take into account the rollovers because all the positions you haven’t closed were automatically transferred with rollovers to the next value date. According to the position direction (buying or selling) you paid or received some amount for the transfer, from tenths of a point to several points. You can’t see the rollovers in the “Average rate” column in the “Open Positions” table. This can create an impression that the unprofitable position can be closed as soon as the current rate is equal to the average one. The option “Allow for Rollover in average rate” is used for not having unnecessary counting. When enabled, the rate in the “Average rate” column will be displayed with all rollovers included. It helps to make a reasonable decision on closing an unprofitable position. Note. For the detailed information see the article on our web-site “Roll-over of open position” (in Russian).

4.8.3. Changing system preferences We’d like to draw your attention to another useful feature of the TradeRoom trading system. Opposite to TradeRoom, many competing trading platforms have the time, the date format and that of numbers preset on the company server. TradeRoom is different. You can choose the date and the number format you are used to, on the “System Preferences” page.





4.9. Viewing trading conditions and other reference information The “Conditions” section is informative. Service conditions such as trading time, trading instruments, spreads, current value dates, deposit rates, roll-over points can be checked here. The Forexite TradeRoom trading conditions favorably differ from the competitive ones, especially by in the spread stability at the market fluctuations as well as in the interest accrual on the balances.

Please note that trading is always open when you trade in your virtual (demo). It means that you can study the Forex trading through Forexite TradeRoom at any time - on holidays and over the weekends.


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5. Withdrawals from trading account The “Funds Transfer” page is used for sending instructions to the Forexite company on the fund transfers from your real trading account to either your private banking account, or to your account in the WebMoney system, or your other accounts in TradeRoom. It looks as follows:

TradeRoom uses the following ways for the fund transfers:

1) “RBK Money transfer” is meant to transfer funds to the account with the RBK Money payment system. In this case, your account must be identified. The identification procedure is described in detail on the RBK Money web-site.

2) “WebMoney transfer” is meant for transfers to a WebMoney purse. 3) “Skrill account” is meant for funds transfers to an account with the Skrill

payment system and their further crediting to a payment card or a banking account.

4) “Paxum Account” is meant for the funds transfer to an account with the Paxum system for their further credit to a Paxum MasterCard payment card.

5) “Bank transfer” is meant for funds transfers from the TradeRoom account to your private banking account.

6) “Internal transfer” is used for TradeRoom account-to-account transfers.



Note. The virtual account has also an option of a “Virtual payment” which is designed just for an amount writing off. Depending on the payment method you select, the “Funds Transfer” page will display various fields necessary for the correct filling out of the instructions on the fund transfer. E.g., on the picture above it is the currency, amount, information about the recipient and the recipient’s bank account details. The “Details of payment” is filled automatically. The “Key number” and “Key” at the bottom of the page are meant for the security while the transfer from the real trading account. You should enter your secret code to confirm your disposal of the real account. The secret code is sent to every real trading account user. You do not need any secret codes while working with your virtual (Demo) accounts. After you fill in all account details press the “Submit” button, and your order will be accepted for processing.

A virtual account order is executed immediately, whereas an order on the real account is processed by the Forexite staff first. The account is debited right after the order sending, but the recipient will receive the money only after the order is processed and executed. The handling period depends on the application time and the payment method. The orders which are received out of the working time will be processed at the beginning of the next working day. There is a “Outgoing Payments” item in the “Payments” menu section which allows tracing the orders handling.

The filter allows selection of the necessary period, currency, and the order status. By clicking on the “OK” you’ll get a list of transfer orders for the required period of time. The list includes the most important information. For the detailed information on the payment, click on the required payment order. For example:



One more useful feature of TradeRoom must be mentioned. If you look through the full information on the order and would like to use it as a template, you should click on the “New transfer order” button. The system will re-direct you to the “Funds transfer” page, the fields of which will be filled in with the data from the order browsed. You just need to make the corrections and additions if necessary.


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6. Terminating the TradeRoom session Use the “Log Off” command from the main menu to terminate your TradeRoom session.

You do not have to take any special actions to save your results. All the deals you’ve made as well as all the orders you’ve placed will stand. Trailing of Stop-orders goes on even after you log out of the system, which is not typical of many other trading systems.


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7. Other TradeRoom features, distinctions and advantages It’s not possible to detail all Forexite TradeRoom features within one article. Let us briefly enumerate its other distinguishing features.

The trading conditions for both real and virtual accounts are the same. We are interested in an honest partnership with our clients; therefore the trading conditions for virtual accounts correspond to the real market conditions in full.

You can work with whatever low risk which you determine for yourself personally based on your finance amount or any other criteria. Since a trade can be of any amount, starting even from 1 USD, then the risk level (a ratio of the position size to that of the deposit) can be infinitesimal.

The open positions can be held for an unlimited time, and yet you can get a positive rollover (i.e. income on the rollover) according to the trading conditions.

You can have a pause in trading for any period. There are no trading activity requirements. The only thing you should bear in mind is that the virtual accounts you have not logged in to for a month, are automatically closed. To re-open the closed virtual account, just log it in.

We do not have any requirements as to the minimum size of the deposit. After you open an account, you are not obliged to credit you account with the funds within a certain period of time or in a certain amount. In case you reduce your deposit, you just go on trading with lesser amounts.

You can open several accounts with TradeRoom. Trades can be executed on any of the accounts, and you can freely transfer the funds not involved in the support of the open positions, between them at any time.

You can withdraw funds without closing the positions, including withdrawal of unrealized profit on the open positions. Transfers are possible within the free funds not involved in the support of the open positions.

Public quoting. Every quote becomes accessible for trading to each client, regardless of their positions, direction and frequency of trades, trading volumes and methods. It eliminates any manipulations with the quotes since they are at all clients’ disposal, and can be easily compared with the quotes from the other independent sources.

At that point our brief introduction to the Forexite TradeRoom is over. Now you are ready to go to the account registration page at https://www.forexite.com/traderoom/ to register a virtual account and try TradeRoom on your own. The Forexite Company web-page is at http://www.forexite.com

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